Based on author's doctoral dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. (JJ)

A case study describes the use of a facilitating phonetic context to decrease the occurrence of an unusual form of gliding. The process of differentiating the phones /l/ and /j/ involved systematic changes differing from the expected route of development. Results support the value of a key word approach in treating recalcitrant phonological…

An auditory discrimination procedure was used in this study to attempt to correct the speech problem of a 4-year-old girl. The major characteristic of that speech problem was the consistent use of inappropriate first consonant sounds in some words, like "gog" for "dog." The child was given 25 training sessions and two posttraining sessions. The…

The volume, intended to introduce readers to the problems and therapeutic needs of speech impaired school children, first presents general considerations and background knowledge necessary for basic insights of the classroom teacher and the school speech clinician in relation to the speech handicapped child. Discussed are the classification and…

Indicates that infants are able to discriminate synthetic speech patterns varying in duration of the formant transitions. This variation provides information sufficient to signal the phonetic distinction between a stop consonant and a semivowel in adult listeners. Also makes conclusions regarding the discriminability of a given difference in…

A study of four children with deafness who had cochlear implants investigated the use of negative intraoral air pressure in articulation, from both the physiological and phonological perspectives. The study showed that the children used speech-production strategies that were different from hearing children and that deviant speech behaviors should…

AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO DETERMINE WHETHER THE MEASURED ARTICULATION PERFORMANCE OF KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN COULD PREDICT WHICH CHILDREN WOULD DEVELOP SATISFACTORY ARTICULATION AND WHICH CHILDREN WOULD CONTINUE TO MISARTICULATE AND NEED SPEECH THERAPY BY THE SECOND GRADE. IN 1960, 2,150 PREKINDERGARTEN AND KINDERGARTEN CHILDREN WERE GIVEN A PICTURE…

Provided is a program of behavioral objectives for use with speech handicapped preschool and elementary level children in the areas of articulation disorders, language disorders, stuttering, tongue thrust, and voice. Communication disorders are defined as substandard behaviors which interfere with the student's ability to perform acceptably for…

A group of 451 Finnish-speaking undergraduates was examined to study occurrence of articulatory disorders. Distortions of /s/, /r/, /l/, /n/, and /d/ were found. Age and sex were not related to prevalence of disorders. Previous speech therapy tended to correlate with higher frequencies of disorders of /s/ and /r/ sounds. (Author/KM)